What are the best ways to market a blog online?

Are you interested in finding the most effective ways to market a blog online? You’re not alone. Many bloggers come to the stage in their blogging experience when they have to start thinking about marketing their blog online, because without a proper blog marketing plan nobody will ever read your blog besides you. Lack of interaction with a blogging audience causes more aspiring bloggers every year to give up on their blogging ambitions before they ever really get started.

This article has the very best solutions that you can use to promote your blog for free online and develop the global following for your blog that you’ve always dreamed about.

Step 1 - The key to market a blog online is developing a steady stream of consistent daily, weekly and monthly traffic to your blog. The way that you develop this traffic is by first creating backlinks to your blog. You can establish backlinks by spending at least one hour per day commenting on posts on other blogs and forums that have similar content as yours. Never leave comments on blogs that are unrelated to your blog's content because those links are not going to help increase your traffic.

The key with leaving comments on blogs and forums is to actually read the content that you’re going to comment on then leave a real comment and not a spam comment. Leaving real comments will help you to get noticed by the blogs administrator and create possible guest posting opportunities which in the long run will create more links back to your blog.

Step 2 - Daily Social bookmarking. You should focus on social bookmarking one unique piece of content that you created per day. Some of the social bookmarking sites that you should be on are Digg, Squidoo, Blinklist and Mr. Wong. You should always focus on social bookmarking your content on DO FOLLOW social bookmarking sites because do follow social bookmarking sites have a higher search engine ranking and will generate better backlinks for you.

Step 3 - Daily article marketing. This step is one of the easiest ways to develop traffic because a well written, search engine friendly article can live forever online and in some cases drive more traffic to your blog then what you would get from paid traffic. To increase your article marketing effectiveness you should consider investing in a service like Traffic Geyser or Automatic Article Submitter. Both of these paid resources are worth every penny and can make article marketing a lot easier for you.

Step 4 - Tweet A Lot. Twitter is an excellent resource for driving traffic to any blog. You should focus on Tweeting as much and as often as possible. A word of caution though, you should only Tweet useful content instead of Tweeting about everything else under the sun because Tweeeting useful content will help you to establish yourself as an expert in your niche and prompt more people to click on the link to your blog.

Step 5 - Facebook. Many people reading this article already have Facebook accounts for playing Farmville and other games but never considered using Facebook to drive traffic to their blogs. The keys to driving daily consistent traffic to your blog using Facebook are: 1. Adding friends daily. These friends must be related to your niche. 2. Posting daily, consistent, useful information to your Facebook account. 3. Synching your blog with your Facebook account so that your Facebook followers will be automatically informed every time you post new content on your blog.

If you follow the steps in this article you will see more traffic to your blog in just a few days. The key to promoting a blog is devoting at least 1 to 2 hours per day of consistent online marketing work and you will be excited with more traffic to your blog and the increase in your blogs subscribers.